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www .library .yale .edu /beinecke /. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library ( / ˈbaɪnɪki /) is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and is one of the largest collections of such texts. [1]
Playing card (Jack of Spades) from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. The Cary Collection of Playing Cards, held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University in the United States, is one of the most significant assemblages of materials relating to playing cards and related ephemera in North America.
Frederick W. Beinecke. Frederick W. Beinecke (1887–1971) was an American philanthropist who was the founder of Yale University 's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library . He was the son of one of the main financiers and one of three co-founders, with Harry S. Black and hotelier Fred Sterry, of the Plaza Hotel.
The Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. [4] Originating in 1701 with the gift of several dozen books to a new “Collegiate School," the library's collection now contains approximately 14.9 million volumes housed in fifteen university buildings and is the third-largest academic library ...
Most of Van Vechten's personal papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. The Beinecke Library also holds a collection titled "Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939–1964", a collection of 1,884 color Kodachrome slides.
Toshiyuki Takamiya (高宮利行, Takamiya Toshiyuki, born 23 February 1944) FSA in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese academic and author. Emeritus Professor at Keio University since 2009, he is an authority on medieval English literature and medieval English manuscript studies and a collector of antiquarian books. As Director of Keio University's ...
The Beinecke Library at Yale University acquired his large collection of material on Joyce, as well as his correspondence with Pound. In June 2022, the Beinecke acquired additional Joyce-related materials which were sold at the 2017 Slocum estate sale. These papers included draft manuscripts by Lucie Noel and Stanislaus Joyce.
The Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection is a research collection of more than 1200 volumes on textiles and decorative art subjects, which is held in the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute . It was assembled over the course of her career by the weaver, textile artist and author Mary Ann Beinecke.